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  • Book Review and Author Q&A - Explore It! by Elisabeth Hendrickson

    Elisabeth Hendrickson has released a book on the practices, techniques and mindset of exploratory testing. Sharon Robson reviewed the book and raised some questions with the author.

    Sharon Robson
    on Dec 24, 2013

  • Architecture and Agility: Married, Divorced, or Just Good Friends?

    This article describes the relationship between architecture and process of software development and how architecture can responds to a set of needs, such as functional requirements, operational characteristics, and developer habitability. It also talks about the role of pragmatic architects when working with developers and stakeholders.

    Kevlin Henney Frank Buschmann
    on Dec 21, 2013

  • The Gentle Art of Running a Lean Startup

    Yiannis relates the practices and approach of running a Lean Startup organisation with the skills and disciplines needed in the martial arts through his practice of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He shows how the underlying practices of both are very similar and how understanding the martial arts approach can assist in conserving energy and maximising outcomes in a lean startup organisation.

    Yiannis Mavraganis
    on Dec 20, 2013

  • Spreading CMMI Practices among Agile Teams in Big Organizations

    Agile methodologies have become mainstream because they provide a better fit to the modern, changing software world. CMMI is a cross-organizational approach which has proven successful in terms of quality assurance and cost when executed properly. Big organizations with self-organized agile teams can achieve technical maturity levels, by using a common metalanguage and a good-practices catalog.

    Nicolás Afonso Alonso
    on Dec 16, 2013

  • Meet Elaine: A Persona- Driven Approach to Exploring Architecturally Significant Requirements

    Often, requirements elicited from stakeholders describe a system’s functionality but fail to address qualities such as performance, reliability, & availability. Documenting these requirements is often overlooked because there are implicit assumptions that the system will perform to expected levels. This article describes a process developed on the idea of persona sketches to address this problem.

    Jane Cleland-Huang
    on Dec 15, 2013

  • Agile Walls

    BVCs, TOWs and POWs are very important tools in the agile world but what exactly are they? BVCs are Big Visible Charts, TOWs are Things on Walls and POWs are Plain Old Whiteboards – information radiators all. Using the right wallware and the information they provide can make or break an agile team.

    Sharon Robson
    on Dec 14, 2013

  • DevOps @ large investment bank

    This article is part of the “DevOps War Stories” series. In each issue we hear what DevOps brings to a different organisation, we learn what worked and what didn’t, and chart the challenges faced during adoption. This time a very personal story on introducing a DevOps mindset at a large bank. In particular how the automation of configuration and release management processes enabled collaboration.

    Niek Bartholomeus
    on Dec 11, 2013

  • Applying Lean Thinking to Software Development

    Lean’s major concept is about reducing waste, meaning anything in your production cycle that is not adding value to the customer is considered waste and should therefore be removed from the process. Steven Peeters explains how you can apply Lean principles in an IT environment.

    Steven Peeters
    on Dec 05, 2013

  • Building Innovative Organizations with Lean Thinking

    For a modern IT company, innovation is equally critical to the company, its clients and its staff. Jeff discussed the important ingredients needed to create a culture of innovation in an organization. Drawing on his experiences at Thoughtworks Chengdu he examines the importance of leadership, lean thinking, problem solving mindset and people factors in fostering innovation.

    Jeff Xiong
    on Dec 03, 2013

  • Author Q&A and Book Excerpt: Directing the Agile Organisation

    Evan Leybourn has written a book titled Governing the Agile Organisation in which he presents ideas about using agile approaches to management and a number of case studies on how the techniques have been applied in a number of disparate organisations.

    Shane Hastie
    on Nov 29, 2013

  • Agility, Big Data, and Analytics

    How do you bringing agility into big data analytics? Learn what makes analytics uniquely different than application development, and how to adapt agile principles and practices to the nuances of analytics. Examine how the disciplines of data science and software development complement one another, and how these intersect in an agile project environment.

    Ken Collier
    on Nov 27, 2013

  • Sell Before You Build

    “Before you write any code, make sure you have a failing test.” This was revolutionary when first pitched in the late 90’s. Many successful entrepreneurs have practiced a similar idea: “Before you build a product/service, make sure you have paying customers.” Naresh Jain explains his approach of finding effective MVPs to validate his Educational Product and why Agile Methods simply fail to do so.

    Naresh Jain
    on Nov 25, 2013
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